European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 8, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday March 8,1990 the stars and stripes a a Page 23 sports fim Syracuse a Boeheim rips a raw recruits a from wire reports Syracuse . A Syracuse University basketball coach Jim Boeheim defended his program tuesday after a newly released Book suggested the orangemen were guilty of recruiting violations. Boeheim said there Wasny to an ounce of truth in the allegations made by writers Alexander Wolff and Armen Keteyian in their Book a raw recruits a which the authors say Sheds Light on illegal recruiting practices in College basketball. The Book links Syracuse to a a Street agent whose Job is to sell the Syracuse program to elite new York City players giving them tickets to games expensive sneakers and free transportation and other incentives. A we done to even think of buying recruits a Boeheim said. A we travel my staff and i hundreds and hundreds of thousands of Miles a year to recruit. A a we re on a lot of kids lists before we even Contact them. They be seen us on television. We done to have to cheat to get involved with them a Boeheim said. The Syracuse coach criticized the Book at a news conference late tuesday afternoon saying it represents a the abuses of  the Book alleges that Robert Johnson working on behalf of Syracuse steered current Syracuse freshman Conrad Mcrae and former orangemen Tony Bruin to Syracuse. A the Book also questions Syracuse a involvement with Marcus Liberty and Jamie Brandon two Chicago prep stars successfully recruited by Illinois. Johnson who is unemployed and lives in a new York City housing project is often seen sitting by the Syracuse Bench or in the locker room after games according to the authors. A Johnson admitted being a diehard Syracuse fan but denied that he pressures or entices athletes to go to particular schools. A i try to help them players As much As i can. I try to keep them off the streets and try to help them stay in school a Johnson said. A i have nothing to hide a he said. Hill toppers Arnold resigns i Green by. A Western Kentucky basketball coach Murray Arnold whose team finished a surprising third this season in the Sun Belt conference resigned wednesday after directing the Hill toppers for tour seasons. Arnold who compiled a 71-54 record said in a University news release that he was a particularly grateful Tor the support and encouragement he had received trom the schools administration faculty and students. The Hill toppers finished with a 13-17 record after losing to North Carolina Charlotte in the Sun Belt Unte rence tournament on saturday. Western Ken Lucky finished third in the conference after being picked eighth in nest pre season polls. Ini Lvi is to officials praised Arnold for the manner which lie ran the basketball program but added morn pint 1?development of our basketball 11� pee v16 time is right for someone else to Lead us to a Sun Belt championship a he said. Or Camci sc198n ?7 Jeam won the schools first regu Ishina i Elt championship going 29-9 and Fin Namphy Rudner up m the pre season nit. He was named Sun Belt coach of the year. 15 and 13-/7rce Hill Topper teams finished 15-13, 14 Vincent oks Howe a comeback his wive Teyf Howe suspended six times in  career a to Rug an alcohol problems and to return to nne the last two years will be allowed com to today thirteen year old Jennifer Capriati scrambles to return a shot during her professional debut in the Virginia slims of Florida tourney on tuesday. Capriati withstood a horde of Media and a lapse late in the first just like the big kids set to claim a 7-6 7-16-1 Victory Over Mary Lou Daniels who compared the teen agers ground strokes to those of world no. 1 Steffi Graf. Next up for Capriati is West German Claudia Porwick. Program can return to the minor leagues this season. Irish rider leads Paris Nice St. Etienne France a after battling two years of injuries former tour de France Winner Stephen Roche of Ireland vaulted into the Lead of the Paris Nice cycling race wednesday. Roche plagued by knee problems since winning the tour de France in 1987, was a member of the histor team that won the 27-mile team time trial around St. Etienne. Histor beat Castorima by 35 seconds with Greg Lemonds z team third 43 seconds Back. In the Overall standings Roche claimed a 20-second Lead Over belgian teammate Etienne de Wilde with Francis Moreau of France third 30 seconds Back. Defending Champion Miguel Indurai of Spain who led tuesday dropped to seventh and was slowed by the Overall performance of his Banes to team which ended 58 seconds Back. Lemond who won the tour de France in 1986 and 1989, fell to 29th, 1 48 behind Roche. Baseball a Joe Sewell Dies Mobile Ala. A Joe Sewell whose career began in tragedy became one of baseball a Best hitters and a Hall of Famer. Sewell Holder of a .312 lifetime batting average and several records for fewest strikeouts during a 14-season major league career died tuesday afternoon at age 91 at the Home of his son or. James w. Sewell. The cause of death was not disclosed. Only a few months off the University of Alabama Campus the 21 year old Sewell was rushed into the Cleveland indians lineup in the heat of a Pennant race after the clubs regular shortstop Ray Chapman became the Only player in major league history to be killed during a game. Chapman a 29-year-old Veteran who had starred for the indians for eight seasons was struck by a pitch thrown by Carl Mays of the new York Yankees and died a Short time later. Sewell filled in brilliantly batting .329 Over the final 22 games As the indians won the american league Pennant by two games Over the Chicago White sox Chicago lost eight players in the last weeks of the season when the infamous a Black sox betting scandal came to Light. Cleveland went on to defeat Brooklyn in the world series. Sewell played 11 seasons with Cleveland his Best being 1923 when he batted .353 and drove in 109 runs both career highs. In 1931, he moved to the Yankees where he roomed with Lou Gehrig and a year later played on the last championship team of the babe Ruth Era. Sewell was perhaps the Best player baseball Ever produced at putting Bat to pitched Ball. His 114 career strikeouts in 7,000 career at bats averages out to one strikeout per 63 at bats or one strikeout for about every 16 games. He set and still holds records of three strikeouts in a season in 1930 and 1932 115 consecutive games and 437 at bats without a strikeout in 1929, and fewest career strikeouts by an everyday player. Biasion takes Lead in Portugal Lisbon a reigning world Champion Massimo Biasion of Italy is the Leader of the portugese rally after tuesdays first stage. Biasion driving a Lancia Della integral is bidding for his third consecutive win in the race which is considered to be one of the most gruelling rallies in the world championship. Ari Vatanen of Finland is in second place in a Mitsubishi galant vr4, just two seconds behind Biasion with fellow Mitsubishi Driver Kenneth Eriksson of Sweden in third place. The rally finishes saturday and is divided into four stages totalling 1,560 Miles with 38 special stages. 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